The document summarizes the key design elements of a magazine cover and how they were created using various media technologies. It discusses how the masthead, main image, cover lines, and splash page were designed and positioned to either follow or challenge conventions of real magazine covers. Photoshop and Quark were used to design different elements. Strengths included using different fonts/colors to make the cover look professional and using alignment guides for positioning. Weaknesses included some learning challenges with the software tools and fixing mistakes.

1. Media College Magazine
Evaluation

2. Q: In what way does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products
Masthead: My masthead is the largest text
on the page and is also in a unique font and
colour to the rest of the page. This makes it
stand out and follows the conventions of
real media products.
Main Image: My subject is in medium close up but is
not looking straight into the camera (no direct
address) which challenges the conventions of real
media products because generally they are looking
straight in the camera. But, the image featured on the
front is of a good quality, the subject is in sharp focus
with the background less sharp and is also bright.
Image: There is only one image used on the front
cover, this follows the conventions of some media
products but not all.
Cover Lines: Cover lines are around main image and
don’t cover the face, this follows the conventions of
real media products as the focus is still on the main
image.
Main Cover Line: is in a different font to
the masthead and also a different colour
which attracts attention. But the main
cover line should be larger to attract more
attention.
Splash: Splash featured at the bottom of
the page to give an incentive to buy the the
product. Featuring a splash is common but
featuring a splash as big as the one shown
here is unusual as a result it does not follow
the conventions of real media products.

3. Q: How did I use new technologies in the
construction of my media product
Adobe Photoshop 2015
I used the type tool to add my
cover lines and masthead to my
front cover.
I used the international paper size
when I created my front cover
Main image was dragged onto the
page
I repositioned the image to crop
some of the hedge behind my main
image out to make it stand out.
Quark
I made the colour of my cover lines
a contrasting colour to the
background so that they stand out
to make them more visible, I did
this using the colour change tool
I used the photo draw tool to add photos to my contents page
by drawing the image box onto the page and aligning it using
the blue and purple lines to ensure there is no bleed.
I drew text onto the page using the text drawing tool and
changed the colour to a unique colour using the colour tool.
I could then typed the text in different font sizes to make
different parts stand out along with large page numbers.
I aligned the text so they are even using
the red lines which assist lining up

4. Strengths and Weaknesses of my media product and my use of new media techniques
Strengths:
Photoshop allowed me to crop my front
cover image to make it fit the frame
better
The text tool on both photoshop and
quark allowed my front cover to look
attractive and professional by the use of
different fonts and colours.
Quarks alignment lines made keeping
photos and text in line and the same
distance easy which improved my media
product.
Weaknesses:
Photoshop is difficult to navigate and the
settings are complicated to understand at
first.
When beginning the front cover on
photoshop, I found understanding how to
use the text tool difficult.
I found it difficult to correct mistakes that
occurred when using the shape function,
which has meant my splash is larger than I
had planned.
On Quark, I found navigating at first
complicated. I found inserting photos
difficult at times as Quark could not read the
file size which was a weakness and photos
also appeared at first overly large which
meant my media product took longer to